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The beauty of my son’s recovery story is that he essentially healed himself. I may have taught him what he needed to know, but as a non-custodial parent, I did not have the liberty to apply alternative medicine to my son, nor take him to an alternative doctor.

The whole truth is that when you stop eating the processed grains, cereals and pastas and go back to eating more butter, eggs and other natural foods that have nourished traditional populations for millennia, you will start to slim down. You will also regain that elusive lost energy of your younger days.

No appliance of our time has found more consumer acceptance than the cell phone. It has become almost a part of our anatomy. This ubiquitous electronic wonder now disturbs the silence of a doctor’s waiting room, lecturers and even the odd funeral.

Enzymes are also of extreme importance to the immune status of the body. Enzymes are necessary for all mental and physical functions and minerals are the catalysts that make enzyme function possible.

Who is most at risk? Anyone on a low carb fad diet who is consuming products labelled ‘sugar-free’, ‘diet’, ‘lite’, or ‘low carb’, is at risk. Diabetics are put between a rock and a hard place because they are forced to avoid sugar, but the question is, do we really need that sickly, sweet taste so badly? The fact is, that if eating sugar is a health problem, then abstaining is the best way to overcome it and over time that additive urge for the sweet taste diminishes.

Cleansing and moisturizing will counteract the effects of drying, chapping and roughening caused by wind, sun and other environmental conditions and can help in speeding up the skin’s defoliating renewal process. However, skin care products are not the only answer to skin problems, certainly, not by no the means the ‘miracle’ products you see advertised.

Poor posture is one of the most common causes of back problems. Incorrect posture can either bring on an immediate pain or cause tension that accumulates slowly over long periods of time.

What we like about Chinese herbal sports medicine is that the body seems to absorb what it needs from the specific herbal formulation. This is because, in any Chinese herb formula there is a balance between the herbs themselves, the harmonisation between the injury and the treatment which is the reason a single formula can be supplied to more than one type of injury.